No. 9.— A New Peripatus from Colombia.' 
By Cuar.es T. BRugEs. 
Tue Bryant Walker Expedition, of the University of Michigan, 
which visited the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northeastern Co- 
ombia during the summer of 1913, obtained an interesting series of 
Onychophora. Through the kindness of Dr. A. G. Ruthven, the 
eader of the Expedition, I have had the opportunity of examining 
these specimens which were collected by himself and Prof. A. 5. Pearse. 
Professor Pearse made some valuable field notes at the time the ani- 
mals were obtained, and these are of such interest, that they are 
neluded separately at the end of the taxonomic account. 
Three species are represented in the collection, P. edwardsii and 
. imthurmi in addition to the one described as new. All belong 
0 Bouvier’s (Monographie des onychophores, 1907, p. 158) group of 
/Péripates caraibes” which has lately been given the subgeneric 
jame of Epiperipatus by Clark (Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 1913, 
6, p. 17). It may be mentioned, however, that Bouvier’s division 
f the neotropical forms into Andicolous and Caribbean species does 
ot hold for the Colombian species as has recently been shown by 
‘uhrmann (Zool. anz., 1913, 42, p. 242). 
D 
| PERIPATUS (EPIPERIPATUS) VESPUCCII, sp. nov. 
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Plate 1; fig. 1-4; Plate 2, fig. 7. 
A small, moderately slender species with 33 or 34. pairs of legs in the 
male and 30 pairs in the male. Integument similar to that of P. 
assent, but there are two incomplete folds on each body segment. 
orm and dimensions. Body rather slender, considerably narrowed 
_each end, so that it tapers very decidedly from a broadened middle 
brtion toward the head and posterior end. In the three specimens 
‘fore me, the body measurements are as follows :— 
( Contributions from the Entomological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, 
\rvard University, No. 81. 
